[Mare]

Thanks for the ping, WW. Very moving and appropriate article.

I checked out your link about your friend Matthew--do you still see him? We sure had some great discussions back then, didn't we?

Regards.

[William Wallace]

Thanks Mare. Glad you liked the article and glad to see you're still around.

I checked out your link about your friend Matthew

You were my inspiration for writing about Matthew. I was one of about 70 volunteers who spent one hour per week caring for him. I can't say he was my friend, I'm not sure he even recognized me. He usually looked past us as if we were dim shadows from a world of hollow appearances that Buddhists call shunyata that accidentally brushed past his world of sublime joy.

The author understands what many cannot fathom. In our encounters with wounded people like Terri, Claire and Matthew, we catch glimpses of something higher than the Platonic cave of shadows we think of as reality, but is really just shunyata.